Canada France Hawaii Telescope
Queued Service Observations 2009B
2009B
schedule, programs, and run summariesList of 2009B programs for:
MegaPrime,
WIRCam, and
ESPaDOnS.
| QrunID | Instrument | HST Dates | Number of Nights | Status | Run Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09BQ01 | WIRCam | 08/01/09 -08/14/09 | 14 | Done | Good run. Lost about 3 nights to high humidity. Good IQ. Used Engineering time for Staring Mode implementation. |
| 09BQ02 | MegaCam | 08/15/09 - 08/23/09 | 9 | Done | Good run. Lost about 1 night to high humidity. Good IQ except for a few hours. Minimal time lost to technical problems. |
| 09BQ03 | WIRCam | 08/24/09 -08/28/09 | 5 | Done | Good short run. Lost 1 night to high humidity. Good IQ. No time lost to technical problems. |
| 09BQ04 | ESPaDOnS | 09/02/09 -09/10/09 | 9 | Done | Good run. Good weather. About 5hrs lost to telescope issues. First official trial at single-person operations from the summit (with Warm Body present for safety reasons): promising! |
| 09BQ05 | MegaCam | 09/11/09 - 09/23/09 | 13 | Done | A run similar to 09BQ02, with about 11 hours lost to weather, minimal time lost to technical problems, and almost 6 hours of validated science per night. |
| 09BQ06 | ESPaDOnS | 09/24/09 - 10/09/09 | 16 | Done | Poor run. The run was affected by bad weather (fog, or clouds). |
| 09BQ07 | MegaCam | 10/10/09 - 10/19/09 | 10 | Done | The run went very well, with less time lost to weather and more validated hours per night. The run was shortened due to very few targets left for the first 2/3 of the night. |
| 09BQ08 | WIRCam | 10/20/09 -11/09/09 | 21 | Done | A very long and productive run. The weather started to turn bad toward the end... |
| 09BQ09 | MegaCam | 11/10/09 - 11/22/09 | 13 | Done | This run was seriously affected by weather (over 40hrs lost) and we obtained less than 4.5 validated hours per night. |
| 09BQ10 | ESPaDOnS | 11/23/09 - 12/09/09 | 17 | Done | This run showcased a new triplet lens in a new mount, a new ADC in a new mount, and the replacement of LN2 by a closed-cycle CryoTiger cooling system. The crosstalk is now below 1%! |
| 09BQ11 | MegaCam | 12/10/09 - 12/20/09 | 11 | Done | The run started with excellent weather, which degraded during the second half. |
| 09BQ12 | WIRCam | 12/21/09 - 12/29/09 | 9 | Done | Perfect weather: all nights were photometric, and IQ was on average better than 0.7". Some work was done to fix and improve the Staring Mode. Most A-ranked programs have been at least 75% completed; the exceptions are programs with known scheduling difficulties. The overall completeness of B-ranked programs is 80%, which is excellent. |
| 09BQ13 | ESPaDOnS | 12/30/09 - 01/06/10 | 8 | Done | Another run with perfect weather, photometric nights, and only a few hours affected by windshake. Excellent progress has been made on many programs from most agencies. The cross-talk was still below 1% this run. |
| 09BQ14 | MegaCam | 01/07/10 - 01/21/10 | 15 | Done | With only one cloudy night, a lot of progress was made and the semester ends with A programs completed at 95%, with overall completion at over 80% |
| 09BQ15 | ESPaDOnS | 01/22/10 - 01/31/10 | 10 | Done | Another excellent night, with only a handful of nights with thin cirrus. Almost everything that was observable this time of the year was observed and validated. This semester's statistics are excellent, with over 90% of A+B programs validated. |